About me

“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.” – S. J. Perelman

There are a couple of reasons I’m kicking off my bio with this quote by S. J. Perelman. For one, I just love the guy. He’s not that well known today, but from the ’20s to the ’70s he wrote humorous essays, short stories, plays, screenplays – you name it. He even wrote for the Marx Brothers! Without him, Monkey Business wouldn’t exist – or, at least, it wouldn’t be the same.

The other reason is that Perelman is talking about being true to yourself. There are only so many ways to express this idea – so ubiquitous and yet so elusive – and I really like this one.

Dealing with such a range of content, I have to keep asking whether my work amuses me – to say nothing of enlightening me and moving me. If it doesn’t, it won’t amuse, enlighten or move my reader.

To see whether it does, check out the rest of my site. Read about comics, my beat for NPR, on my arts journalism page. Take a look at my work for Inc. and Money magazines on my business journalism page. See the copywriting I’ve done for nonprofit and for-profit clients around the country.

Then get in touch. (Or get in touch before you read all that. It’s not a pre-req.) I’m at: